Among the victims of the deadly terrorist attack on a Jewish gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, was 87-year-old Alexander Kleytman. Born in 1938, he survived the Nazi occupation of his native Ukraine and fled to frosty Siberia in a risky train journey, endured decades of religious persecution in the Soviet Union, and ultimately made it to a welcoming, multicultural Australia in 1992. His story, of having escaped the Holocaust only to be gunned down in Australia by terrorists owing allegiance to the Islamic State (IS), underlines the scourge that has haunted the Jewish community for a long time.

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